Paint a Christmas Tree Farm – a holiday art activity that is truly special

Oh baby, can you see how cool this turned out? I am 100% smitten with this Christmas tree farm activity – it is exactly how I hoped it would be.

This is one of “those projects” that’s going to stay up on the wall for a long time.

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The simple inspirations for our Paint a Christmas Tree Farm

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We read a new Christmas book this year and fell absolutely in love with it.

Have you read Pick a Pine Tree yet?

Something about this book stuck for me – and the cover full of trees… well, I just loved it.

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So I took this simple idea and turned it into our Paint a Christmas Tree Farm activity

One of my favorite art activities we did was painting large overlapping shapes. It turned out so cool… I wondered if I could make a Christmas tree version.

I’ll admit: I had to make a small prototype of this activity first to see if it would world.

And it totally did.

Here’s how I drew up this Christmas activity

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I rolled out my paper to a size I liked (you can make this GIANT like I did or on a piece of construction paper – that’s what my prototype was on!).

Using a ruler, I started drawing overlapping triangles, varying them height and width.

This is just something you’ll have to figure out on your own – how many and where to put them. It’s like choosing a good melon. You just know.

Don’t forget to add little stumps – this takes it from triangles to trees.

Mixing the green paint was super fun (and important!)

We couldn’t have blah, one tone trees on our Tree Farm – and the fun of intersecting triangles is you end up with all sorts of extra triangles hidden inside trees.

To mix up 12 different greens, we squirted different combinations of green, white, yellow, and black.

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This mini-lessons on shades was amazing for my five year old. She really got into it.

Our little tip on painting a Christmas Tree farm:

Use different brush sizes.

My daughter varied between larger brushes (these ones) and smaller brushes.

This was also a great lesson for her in choosing the right tool for the job. The size of triangle dictated the size of brush – that was a cool lesson for her to learn here.

The finishing touch: painting the stumps

With a little cup from the kitchen, I gave my daughter a hint of brown to paint her stumps.

This was the cherry on the top and made her trees come to life.

It was an art project for the ages – and I’m truly not taking it down anytime soon.

From Pick a Pine Tree to Paint a Tree Farm

This was quite the activity for us. The intersecting triangles…the shades of green… it all came together for one magical Christmas activity.